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Sci. STKE, 29 October 2002
Vol. 2002, Issue 156, p. tw395
[DOI: 10.1126/stke.2002.156.tw395]

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INSULIN SIGNALING Live Long and Reproduce

Insulin and other insulin-like growth factors signal through a pathway that involves phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and the forkhead transcription factors. This pathway is a critical regulator of life-span and reproduction in many organisms. Dillin et al. have now determined that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, life-span can be regulated through this pathway only in the adult and reproduction only in the developmental phases. Thus, the long-standing notion that life-span can be lengthened only at the expense of reproductive fitness is almost certainly false.

A. Dillin, D. K. Crawford, C. Kenyon, Timing requirements for Insulin/IGF-1 signaling in C. elegans. Science 298, 830-834 (2002). [Abstract] [Full Text]

Citation: Live Long and Reproduce. Sci. STKE 2002, tw395 (2002).

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